What the heck did they do to the notepad tool? Merge Wordpad and Notepad
together? I was trying to get clean, pure plain text and its all fonts and
stuff. Egads, can they leave NOTHING in peace?
"mdavison" <mdavison@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> What the heck did they do to the notepad tool? Merge Wordpad and Notepad
> together? I was trying to get clean, pure plain text and its all fonts and
> stuff. Egads, can they leave NOTHING in peace?
Nope - my Vista has Notepad AND Wordpad, and Notepad is exactly as it always
used to be....
Perhaps you are looking in the wrong place? For instance this group is
for issues relating to MS Office applications, while Vista is an
operating system and has it's own group for questions.
mdavison wrote:
> What the heck did they do to the notepad tool? Merge Wordpad and Notepad
> together? I was trying to get clean, pure plain text and its all fonts and
> stuff. Egads, can they leave NOTHING in peace?
Try looking in the Accessories folder in the Start Menu.
"mdavison" <mdavison@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A9454917-BB4C-4EB8-A858-62D07A657311@microsoft.com...
> What the heck did they do to the notepad tool? Merge Wordpad and Notepad
> together? I was trying to get clean, pure plain text and its all fonts and
> stuff. Egads, can they leave NOTHING in peace?
That is where i looked. I don't have a problem FINDING it, I have a problem
with its new behaviour.
GORDON - do you mind humoring me and looking again at your Notepad? Do you
have a Format menu? With an option for Font? It has me totally second
guessing the purety of my plain text text.
Thanks!
"Joseph Meehan" wrote:
> Try looking in the Accessories folder in the Start Menu.
>
> "mdavison" <mdavison@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A9454917-BB4C-4EB8-A858-62D07A657311@microsoft.com...
> > What the heck did they do to the notepad tool? Merge Wordpad and Notepad
> > together? I was trying to get clean, pure plain text and its all fonts and
> > stuff. Egads, can they leave NOTHING in peace?
>
>
> --
> Joseph Meehan
>
> Dia 's Muire duit
>
>
>
>
> That is where i looked. I don't have a problem FINDING it, I have a problem
> with its new behaviour.
>
> GORDON - do you mind humoring me and looking again at your Notepad? Do you
> have a Format menu? With an option for Font? It has me totally second
> guessing the purety of my plain text text.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> "Joseph Meehan" wrote:
>
>
>> Try looking in the Accessories folder in the Start Menu.
>>
>>"mdavison" <mdavison@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>news:A9454917-BB4C-4EB8-A858-62D07A657311@microsoft.com...
>>
>>>What the heck did they do to the notepad tool? Merge Wordpad and Notepad
>>>together? I was trying to get clean, pure plain text and its all fonts and
>>>stuff. Egads, can they leave NOTHING in peace?
>>
>>
>>--
>>Joseph Meehan
>>
>> Dia 's Muire duit
>>
>>
>>
>>
Shows how often I used it then, doesn't it? I think of notepad as my code
editor, place to fix HTML and a place to ultimatly clear any text formatting
that Word wont clear. Hmrf. Now what do I use?
"Bob I" wrote:
> FWIW Notepads Format, Font exists prior to Vista, WAY prior.
> http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/M..._20024290.html
>
> mdavison wrote:
>
> > That is where i looked. I don't have a problem FINDING it, I have a problem
> > with its new behaviour.
> >
> > GORDON - do you mind humoring me and looking again at your Notepad? Do you
> > have a Format menu? With an option for Font? It has me totally second
> > guessing the purety of my plain text text.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> > "Joseph Meehan" wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Try looking in the Accessories folder in the Start Menu.
> >>
> >>"mdavison" <mdavison@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >>news:A9454917-BB4C-4EB8-A858-62D07A657311@microsoft.com...
> >>
> >>>What the heck did they do to the notepad tool? Merge Wordpad and Notepad
> >>>together? I was trying to get clean, pure plain text and its all fonts and
> >>>stuff. Egads, can they leave NOTHING in peace?
> >>
> >>
> >>--
> >>Joseph Meehan
> >>
> >> Dia 's Muire duit
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
The FONT is only for display inside Notepad. Set it to Courier or
whatever makes you happy and use it like you wish.
mdavison wrote:
> Shows how often I used it then, doesn't it? I think of notepad as my code
> editor, place to fix HTML and a place to ultimatly clear any text formatting
> that Word wont clear. Hmrf. Now what do I use?
>
> "Bob I" wrote:
>
>
>>FWIW Notepads Format, Font exists prior to Vista, WAY prior.
>>http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/M..._20024290.html
>>
>>mdavison wrote:
>>
>>
>>>That is where i looked. I don't have a problem FINDING it, I have a problem
>>>with its new behaviour.
>>>
>>>GORDON - do you mind humoring me and looking again at your Notepad? Do you
>>>have a Format menu? With an option for Font? It has me totally second
>>>guessing the purety of my plain text text.
>>>
>>>Thanks!
>>>
>>>
>>>"Joseph Meehan" wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Try looking in the Accessories folder in the Start Menu.
>>>>
>>>>"mdavison" <mdavison@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>>>news:A9454917-BB4C-4EB8-A858-62D07A657311@microsoft.com...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>What the heck did they do to the notepad tool? Merge Wordpad and Notepad
>>>>>together? I was trying to get clean, pure plain text and its all fonts and
>>>>>stuff. Egads, can they leave NOTHING in peace?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>Joseph Meehan
>>>>
>>>>Dia 's Muire duit
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
I think you miss my point. The whole purpose of working in a plain text
environment is to produce just that - PLAIN text. How can I trust the results
now, knowing that there might possible be formatting embedded in it? Your
link got me no place interesting btw. Should I be searching for something?
Maybe there is no fix, maybe I'm just venting that there are those tools
wich were perfect just the way the were when originally published way back
when, so why does M$ always feel the need to gunk them up? Its a rhetorical
question I suppose.
"Bob I" wrote:
> The FONT is only for display inside Notepad. Set it to Courier or
> whatever makes you happy and use it like you wish.
>
> mdavison wrote:
>
> > Shows how often I used it then, doesn't it? I think of notepad as my code
> > editor, place to fix HTML and a place to ultimatly clear any text formatting
> > that Word wont clear. Hmrf. Now what do I use?
> >
> > "Bob I" wrote:
> >
> >
> >>FWIW Notepads Format, Font exists prior to Vista, WAY prior.
> >>http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/M..._20024290.html
> >>
> >>mdavison wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>That is where i looked. I don't have a problem FINDING it, I have a problem
> >>>with its new behaviour.
> >>>
> >>>GORDON - do you mind humoring me and looking again at your Notepad? Do you
> >>>have a Format menu? With an option for Font? It has me totally second
> >>>guessing the purety of my plain text text.
> >>>
> >>>Thanks!
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>"Joseph Meehan" wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Try looking in the Accessories folder in the Start Menu.
> >>>>
> >>>>"mdavison" <mdavison@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >>>>news:A9454917-BB4C-4EB8-A858-62D07A657311@microsoft.com...
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>What the heck did they do to the notepad tool? Merge Wordpad and Notepad
> >>>>>together? I was trying to get clean, pure plain text and its all fonts and
> >>>>>stuff. Egads, can they leave NOTHING in peace?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>--
> >>>>Joseph Meehan
> >>>>
> >>>>Dia 's Muire duit
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>
> >>
>
>
"mdavison" <mdavison@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A7BFCFCF-66D7-4CAA-9509-0EF516E40F02@microsoft.com...
> That is where i looked. I don't have a problem FINDING it, I have a
> problem
> with its new behaviour.
>
> GORDON - do you mind humoring me and looking again at your Notepad? Do you
> have a Format menu? With an option for Font?
Vista/07 Accessories 
Linear Mode
